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97 ZS conduct a two-year study. Unfortunately, the study was doomed from the start. Edward Condon’s ability to be objective was questioned when he announced, “My attitude right now is that there’s nothing to it ... but ’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year.” On December 17, 1969, the study was closed down, with a negative conclusion on the existence of UFOs. Astronautics rejected the conclusions outright, saying, “We find it dif- ficult to ignore the small residue of well-documented but unexplain- able cases that form the hard core of the UFO controversy.” John Northrop of Northrop Aircraft said that the study was “one of the most deliberate cover-ups ever perpetrated on the public.” Figure 6.1 Edward Condon (right), leader of the Condon Committee, which controversially denied the existence of UFOs. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis) Conspiracies and Cover-ups Committee. They gave the University of Colorado $313,000 dollars to The methods and conclusions of the Condon Committee came under immediate attack. The American Institute of Aeronautics and